Roman Nose

Roman Nose (1823-17 September 1868) was a Cheyenne chief in the state of Colorado, and he led resistance to the United States after the Sand Creek massacre. He was killed at the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868 during the Comanche War.

Biography
Roman Nose was born in 1823 during the prosperous days of the fur trade; his nickname came from his warrior name of "Hook Nose", which is also called a "Roman nose" or an "Aquiline nose". After the Sand Creek massacre of 1864, Roman Nose went to war with the United States as a war chief of the Cheyenne tribe, and he was known as a great warrior who instilled fear in the whites. Roman Nose was considered to be a "remarkable specimen" of a Native American by Winfield Scott Hancock's doctor, as he was six feet tall and muscular, and the brave Roman Nose believed that his special war bonnet gave him invincibility, an overconfident belief that would prove fatal during the war with the United States in 1868.

Roman Nose resisted any settlement with the US government in the aftermath of the Colorado War and the 1864 Sand Creek massacre, and in 1865 he led his fighters south to the panhandle of Texas to continue the struggle against the US Army. On 17 September 1868, he was killed at the Battle of Beecher Island at Arikaree Fork while charging the US Army troops, leading to the defeat of the Native Americans in the Comanche War.